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Plant Lactuca sativa (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Lettuce
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MERCURY 1 Leaf 0.0 0.0 -0.10 Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE 15 Leaf 160.0 2667.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Leaf 0.1 2.0 -0.13 Duke, 1992 *
MUFA 13 Leaf 120.0 2000.0 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSYLALCOHOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Leaf 4.0 67.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Leaf 0.2 28.0 0.19 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Leaf 2200.0 54000.0 0.51 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf 90.0 1500.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Leaf 110.0 136.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf 350.0 5833.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Leaf 30.0 500.0 0.12 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Leaf 2.0 33.0 -0.04 Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS 0 Leaf not available 40000.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 550.0 9167.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 108.0 13920.0 1.65 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Leaf 380.0 6333.0 1.34 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 2900.0 121800.0 4.04 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Leaf 480.0 8000.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidysgeuzic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic 3 Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiencephalitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic 7 Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifatigue 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Antifertility 2 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.